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. >> host: john is from illinois now. john is an independent. hi there. >> caller: hi. mr. johnson, the only problem i have is about the tax issue. and the reason why it's like -- the reason why i say that is, our taxes in this country have never been set at actually to be fair. what they were set up for originally was that the rich were supposed to pay the majority of their taxes in federal taxes, and the working class and the poor were supposed to pay most of -- the majority of theirs in home owners taxes, city and state taxes. and that has been all -- it's got everything out of sorts. my problem with what everybody calls a fair tax is, when you're on a fixed income, and these states are going to have to have such a high tax rate because the federal government is going to have such a lower one, that when anybody that is on a fixed tax rate goes in and buys a refrigerator, they cost $400, the lowest one they can buy, they have about $100 tax on the refrigerator. that is the problem. and the only ones it's going to hurt is people that are retired, people that are on disabil
. >> host: john is from illinois now. john is an independent. hi there. >> caller: hi. mr. johnson, the only problem i have is about the tax issue. and the reason why it's like -- the reason why i say that is, our taxes in this country have never been set at actually to be fair. what they were set up for originally was that the rich were supposed to pay the majority of their taxes in federal taxes, and the working class and the poor were supposed to pay most of -- the majority of...
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john mccain himself says it starts with immigration. i think he is quite right. how does a republican candidate run the gauntlet of a primary season. she was determined to run is a pro-immigrant moderate republican in california. republicans have set themselves a hurdle that is so high. 80% of the growing population, it becomes reaganesque. it is very hard for a nominee to match this every four years. the republicans do very well that is not true for hispanic republicans. i think it was really hard to run the gauntlet of the primary leicester in the short run. i have assimilated multiple generations and a lot of social issues, for example, a lot of topic changes, more recently religious, that is not always true. if you look at places like new mexico where you have hundreds of years of hispanic residents. moderation on those issues. so i think at any rate, it is very complicated and it's not a given. >> ron had said something about the hispanic unemployment rate. it is also true that when you look at the unemployment rate among african-americans come it has been h
john mccain himself says it starts with immigration. i think he is quite right. how does a republican candidate run the gauntlet of a primary season. she was determined to run is a pro-immigrant moderate republican in california. republicans have set themselves a hurdle that is so high. 80% of the growing population, it becomes reaganesque. it is very hard for a nominee to match this every four years. the republicans do very well that is not true for hispanic republicans. i think it was really...
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when i was very young, my father was very much a part of the john f. kennedy campaign for president. senator kennedy came to baltimore to talk about his campaign. and there was a tv show called senator kennedy answers your questions. it was not well. i had the privilege of being one of the people as a student who answered the phone to related questions to the senator. it was a giant thrill, as you can imagine. every single question was about health care for seniors. about some health concern for our seniors. not all of the calls came from seniors or family members. because this is an issue that doesn't accept seniors, it accepts the economic stability and security of their families as well. what they want to do is take us to a place where seniors and families were clamoring for what would become medicare. they want to take that took place that takes us backwards. if the medicare guarantee is severed, that is what they want to do. some of their previous leaders have said, medicare is going to wither on the vine and that is exactly what this is. this is
when i was very young, my father was very much a part of the john f. kennedy campaign for president. senator kennedy came to baltimore to talk about his campaign. and there was a tv show called senator kennedy answers your questions. it was not well. i had the privilege of being one of the people as a student who answered the phone to related questions to the senator. it was a giant thrill, as you can imagine. every single question was about health care for seniors. about some health concern...
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the second to think about is john roberts, the chief justice. i think he pays that a pivotal role ideologically but has an important role in terms of how fast the court does anything. some are still more conservative , justice scalia, justice thomas, they want to get to the end result. this something he believes strongly in will provide a strong vote in. the chief justice has been more concerned with taking things incrementally. you say affirmative action as unconstitutional per se? or do you cut back on the decision? t. take a baby step in that area? to say the voting rights act is unconstitutional across the lord or do you go on the number of jurisdictions that are subject to the preclearance? the other thing i will mention edges that affords amendment case will carefully cover the docket of search and seizure coming up. the new grant on which it can take blood when they think you are driving under the influence and there is an important case about that, where a state practice of taking blood, even when there is no accent is a warrior. i would
the second to think about is john roberts, the chief justice. i think he pays that a pivotal role ideologically but has an important role in terms of how fast the court does anything. some are still more conservative , justice scalia, justice thomas, they want to get to the end result. this something he believes strongly in will provide a strong vote in. the chief justice has been more concerned with taking things incrementally. you say affirmative action as unconstitutional per se? or do you...
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i didn't hear you say anything about john boehner. since when does business every guarantee? business is always a risk. so if you're not willing to take the risk, let someone else do it who's willing to take the chance. >> guest: yes, i think there is a lot to go around in terms of congress. you know, john boehner, the speaker of the house also should be providing later shipped to ensure the deal gets done. any mention of bob woodward wrote. i believe rob woodward has interviews with john boehner and the president on how last summer we were all complaining about the debt ceiling debate and it just fell flat. once again is that americans pay in the balance while these guys fight about the amount of taxes were going to pay any amount of spending were going to see. again, here we are one year later waiting for this fiscal class. now in terms of apple, apple has been a very successful company and it makes products people want. but let's not forget something. apple is sitting on some $40 billion of cash on the balance sheet. much of that money is overseas. that money is not coming
i didn't hear you say anything about john boehner. since when does business every guarantee? business is always a risk. so if you're not willing to take the risk, let someone else do it who's willing to take the chance. >> guest: yes, i think there is a lot to go around in terms of congress. you know, john boehner, the speaker of the house also should be providing later shipped to ensure the deal gets done. any mention of bob woodward wrote. i believe rob woodward has interviews with john...